Tony Blair

The latest news and opinion on Tony Blair, former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and leader of the Labour Party

Former prime minister Liz Truss has written a book that has an interesting perception of reality.

Reviewed: Six of the worst books by politicians

New polling makes grim reading for SNP MPs hoping to return to Westminster at the next election.

SNP could slip to just 19 seats after next election, poll suggests

Former prime minister Tony Blair with his deputy prime minister John Prescott and chief of staff Jonathan Powell. Image: Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images.

Scottish Labour predicts an election victory like that of Tony Blair in 1997

Inside new wellbeing hub planned for Fettes College. Image: Fettes College and Page/Park Architects

Work due to start on 'world leading' wellbeing centre at Fettes College

TV presenter Kate Garraway returned to ITV's Good Morning Britain via a videolink on Monday morning (February 5). Credit: ITV

Kate Garraway to return to TV following husband's funeral

Tony Blair walks to a cabinet meeting flanked by Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott (left) and chief of staff Jonathan Powell in 2007 (Picture: Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images)

Readers' letters: Brian Wilson would know all about 'secretive cabals'

The amount of education people receive can have a dramatic effect on their health (Picture: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)

Staggering health benefits of education highlight the folly of populist politics

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak. Image: Andrii Nesterenko/Getty Images.

New poll predicts Conservative wipeout at 2024 general election

Scotland deserves better than Starmer's Tory-lite Blair tribute act Keith Brown

English broadcaster and journalist Kate Garraway stands with her husband Derek Draper and her parents Gordon and Marilyn Garraway, as she poses with their medal after being appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE). Picture: Andrew Matthews/AFP via Getty Images

Kate Garraway's husband Derek Draper dies following Covid battle

Labour Party leader Sir Keir Starmer gives a speech in Bristol.

Keir Starmer promises hope but speech shows party wary of what it can deliver

Former Prime Minister Tony Blair, whose Labour government considered setting up a holding camp on the Isle of Mull in an attempt to drive down the numbers of asylum seekers entering in the UK.

Tony Blair’s Government considered placing asylum holding camp on Isle of Mull

Fettes College

Deadline approaching for fully-funded places at Edinburgh's Fettes College

Tony and Cherie Blair arrive at St Mary's Episcopal Cathedral to pay their respects to Alistair Darling. Picture: Lisa Ferguson

Tributes paid to Alistair Darling: chancellor, family man and tractor enthusiast

The Crown review: A funny, moving, five-star finale

Why would anyone want to be Tory leader, a job with zero prospects Alexander Brown

Is First Minister Humza Yousaf's government too cagey over requests for information? (Picture: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)

Readers' Letters: Scottish Government redefines English language

Thatcher wouldn't think much of Starmer's stance on private school fees John McLellan

Margaret Thatcher looking pensive at the Conservative Party Conference in Blackpool in 1985. PIC: Hulton Archive/Getty Images

Sir Keir Starmer criticised for praising Margaret Thatcher

Scotland has lost a very fine man and I will miss him Euan McColm

The-then Prince of Wales, now King Charles III, talks with former American secretary of state Dr Henry Kissinger during the Britain In The World conference at the Royal Institute of International Affairs in London. Picture: PA

Former US secretary of State Henry Kissinger dies aged 100

One of two Caledonian Macbrayne ferries being built in the Ferguson Marine shipyard in Port Glasgow, Inverclyde. Picture: PA

Labour peer says delayed ferries have 'robbed taxpayers'

Tony Blair speaks onstage during the 2023 Concordia Annual Summit at Sheraton New York. Picture: Getty Images

Blair acting as broker for Sir Keir Starmer in Middle East

Right-wing populists seem hellbent on trashing the West’s finest principles Joyce McMillan

Former First Minister Nicola Sturgeon joins Scottish political party leaders as they take part in a motion of condolence at the Scottish Parliament in 2021. Picture: Jeff J Mitchell - Pool/Getty Images

Cameron claims offer to attend Holyrood annually for scrutiny never taken up

Edinburgh's Simon Webster gets in ahead of Leinster's Rob Kearney to score a try in the Celtic League match at Donnybrook on November 6, 2005. It was the last time Edinburgh won in Dublin. (Picture: Julien Behal/PA)

Edinburgh, Leinster, the 18-year Dublin hex and why this is the time to believe

Terrified Tories struggle for strategy as Keir Starmer shows he's ready to win Alexander Brown

Labour Party leader Keir Starmer joined Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar and MP-elect Michael Shanks to celebrate the latter's victory in the Rutherglen and Hamilton West by-election (Picture: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)

Readers' Letters: By-election shows tide is turning for Labour in Scotland

Labour Party leader Keir Starmer joined Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar (right) and MP-elect Michael Shanks (centre) to celebrate Shanks' victory in the Rutherglen and Hamilton West by-election. Picture: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images

Curtice: Labour could win 40 seats in Scotland if swing replicated at election

Exclusive Fettes College bursary offered to disadvantaged pupils from across Scotland

Former Prime Minister Tony Blair (left) and Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer discuss politics during the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change's Future of Britain Conference earlier this year.

SNP say praise from Tony Blair should ‘mortify’ Keir Starmer

Elizabeth Debicki as Diana, Princess of Wales in The Crown. Picture: PA

Diana’s death ‘will be covered sensitively’ in The Crown

Readers' Letters

Labour MP Ann Clwyd became the oldest woman to sit in the House of Commons (Picture: Dominic Lipinski/PA Wire)

Scotsman Obituaries: Ann Clwyd, Long-serving Welsh Labour MP

Glenda Jackson holding the Oscar which she won for her role as Gudrun in Women in Love (Photo by Mike Lawn/Fox Photos/Getty Images)

Obituary: Glenda Jackson, Oscar-winning actress turned Labour politician

Oscar-winning actress and former MP Glenda Jackson dies at 87. Picture: Mike Coppola/Getty Images for Tony Awards Productions

Two-time Oscar-winning actress turned Labour MP Glenda Jackson dies age 87

Michael Sheen in BBC1's Staged where he gets to be as Welsh as he wants to be - but he'd be depriving himself of work if it was all local roles for local actors

Aidan Smith: Why local roles for local people just wouldn't work

King Charles III arrives for his coronation ceremony in Westminster Abbey, London.

19 pictures of coronation guests including Prince Harry, Prince Andrew, and more

Calum Ross

'Scottish education stands at a crossroads'

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Rishi Sunak and European Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen shake hands during a joint press conference about the 'Windsor Framework' for Northern Ireland (Picture: Dan Kitwood/pool/AFP via Getty Images)

Sunak's deal with EU is symptomatic of all that's wrong with today's Tories

Finance secretary Kate Forbes speaks as she, Scottish National Party MSP Ash Regan, and Scotland's Health Minister and Scottish National Party MSP Humza Yousaf attend a SNP Hustings event at Rothes Halls in Glenrothes. Picture: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images

Why Forbes should look to Scottish Tory peer Annabel Goldie for inspiration

First Minister Nicola Sturgeon and Deputy First Minister John Swinney arrive for First Minster's Questions last Thursday

Euan McColm: Why the SNP’s new guard needs to taste defeat

Tony Blair (pictured) and William Hague have called for the introduction of digital ID cards

Readers' letters: Digital ID cards are a charter for state snooping

Former Labour prime minister and Conservative leaders Tony Blair and William Hague have come together to argue everyone in the UK should be issued digital IDs.

‘Give all Brits digital IDs’, say Tony Blair and William Hague

SNP MSP Kate Forbes has confirmed she is entering the race to succeed Nicola Sturgeon (Picture: Andrew Milligan/PA)

Religion should not be off-limits in SNP leadership race – Scotsman comment

Harry Hill is bringing a Tony Blair-inspired 'rock opera' to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

Harry Hill to bring Tony Blair ‘rock opera’ to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe

Douglas Alexander, a former minister in Tony Blair's government, who is seeking to make a comeback at Westminster, almost a decade after losing his seat. Picture: Chris Radburn/PA Wire

Former Labour MP bids to make comeback after losing seat to Mhairi Black

Labour leader Neil Kinnock looked set to become the next Prime Minister in the run-up to the 1992 general election, won by John Major's Conservatives (Picture: Michael Stephens/PA)

Labour landslide? Starmer looks more like Kinnock than Blair – John McLellan

Green Goddesses lined up at Redford Barracks

Remembering when workers went on strike in Scotland in 2002-03

New Zealand's Prime Minster Jacinda Ardern speaks during the One Planet Summit in New York. Picture: AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File

Jacinda Ardern goes on own terms because not all politicians leave in disgrace

Boris Johnson to release a memoir about his time in Downing Street after reportedly £6 million deal.

Boris Johnson to release a memoir about his time in Downing Street

Independence supporters who backed Remain in the Brexit referendum should remember how that felt, and how much worse it would be for unionists if Scotland voted to leave the UK (Picture: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)

Stewart McDonald: SNP should embrace idea of ‘losers’ consent’ from unionists

Douglas Alexander served as Scottish secretary under Tony Blair. Picture: John Devlin.

Former Labour Cabinet minister 'submits' bid to stand in East Lothian

Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer (right) and former Prime Minister Gordon Brown greet each other during a Labour Party press conference at Nexus, University of Leeds, in Yorkshire, to launch a report on constitutional change and political reform that would spread power, wealth and opportunity across the UK. Picture date: Monday December 5, 2022.

Gordon Brown: Support ‘swelling’ for Labour under Sir Keir Starmer’s leadership

Former prime minister Gordon Brown has previously said both he and Sir Tony Blair were "naive" to believe devolution would strengthen the Union

Leader: An exit route on road to independence?

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Scotland has failed to meet its latest target for reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, the latest official figures show. Picture: John Giles/PA Wire

Fail: Scotland misses climate target

Pro-independence protesters with Scottish Saltire flags (top) march for Scottish independence. Picture: Andy Buchanan/AFP via Getty Images

Yousaf: Growing popular support for Yes the only way to Scottish independence

Nadine Dorries. Picture: Dan Kitwood/Getty Images

SNP MP cleared of bullying Nadine Dorries